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HALLOWEEN: Evil Waits (2013 regrade with new prologue and original mono audio) |
Posted by: pipefan413 - 2019-10-27, 11:18 PM - Forum: Released
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HALLOWEEN: EVIL WAITS
a pipefan413 preservation
This is mostly Halloween as we know it, but with a few tweaks:
1. The original mono audio has been reinstated (in lossless 16-bit PCM) and the TV audio has been level boosted by approximately 5dB so that it is no longer significantly quieter than the rest of the film.
2. I have added a new prologue consisting of a re-edited presentation of one of the scenes shot for the 1980 TV cut. As well as cutting some shots and rearranging others, I regraded the colour to somewhat more closely approximate the DP-approved "35th Anniversary Edition", since that was my source for the rest of the footage.
3. 10 frames have been trimmed from the start of the opening titles so that the timing of the main theme kicking in after the new prologue is more satisfying (you can almost count the theme in with a bar of 5/4 at the right tempo).
4. The whole thing has been re-encoded down ever so slightly to a video bitrate of around 35Mbps so that it'll fit onto a 25GB Blu-ray disc with a little room left for a menu and potentially a bonus video or two if you like. The direct rip of the unedited film was 36.2Mbps and slightly too big at 25.5GB, but this release is around 22.9GB. I have attempted to ensure that it's disc-compatible, but I don't reckon I want it on disc myself so burn at your own discretion (you might want to inspect the file closely before authoring).
I did this after re-watching Croweyes1121's Halloween: Revised Extended Edition, which adds the 1980 TV scenes to spoRv's THX-esque regraded release (Fundamental Collection #006). Whilst I love that release as an alternative way to watch the film, I find the TV scenes to be distractingly mismatched with everything else, and they mess with the flow of the edit significantly. However, one scene between Loomis and young Michael in Smith's Grove stood out to me in a good way. I do not feel that it sits well where it was placed for the extended TV cut, but I thought it might work as a brief prologue to the original theatrical cut. That's exactly what I've done with this edit.
NOTE: The regrade of the TV footage is by no means "accurate" in any way, since it uses no direct reference and was not intended to reproduce an existing version of this footage. It's definitely heavy on the blue. This is primarily because I'm new to colour grading but wanted this out by Halloween, so I just did a very simple curve adjustment to cut the red channel fairly heavily and the green channel slightly, as opposed to learning and implementing a more sophisticated technique. It does nonetheless look better to me overall than it did on the special features of the 35th Anniversary Blu-ray Disc, or in Croweyes1121's regrade (which was targeted toward the THX colours to match Fundamental Collection #006) and if I do get better at this stuff and manage to get my hands on a better source e.g. the bonus disc from the 2014 US Complete Collection, I might take another run at this. For now, it does what I want it to do and I figure it might be of interest to somebody out there. Here's a quick example of what it looked like in the source I had vs how it looks in my first release: http://www.framecompare.com/screenshotco...n/J0EMMNNU
In terms of availability, it's currently on the 'Spleen and will be made available elsewhere if anybody feels like inviting me to another suitable tracker that's still taking on new members.
Enjoy!
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[Released] Terminator 2 Judgment Day (1991). Regraded + Partially DeRem'd + Regrained |
Posted by: sanjuro_61 - 2019-10-25, 02:16 PM - Forum: Released
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Hi there.
So, bringing you Terminator 2...
...partially? Yes, only some of the changes are fixed
I found to big issues:
1. The remastered BD has more detail than the old BD (much more). When cropping and pasting, the difference it's noticeable. In some cases particularly distracting. The bike jump scene was the one that made me drop the idea. Pasting the original "Arnie's face" back made the fix too distracting.
2. They are different scans. To fix the changes you have to rescale, adjust rotation, color match the two scenes, and if you have the HDDVD or the 2015 BD as source for the original version, degrain it. The PQ difference, it's just to big and there's also one more thing you can do nothing about: the scan. When scanning a film there are some stretching and pinch effects that might be noticeable between two different scans. A comparison is the best way to describe it. Here's a frame from The Terminator where you can see very clearly what I'm talking about:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x=241...0&i=1&go=1
When fixing Arnie's face in the bike jump scene, the still frames looked fine but it was noticeable in motion. Not to mention the obvious difference in PQ. Same for the equipment visible when the T-1000 is driving the truck chasing John and the stuntman in the back seat when escaping from Pescadero (blurry stains if you ask me). Just too distracting.
So in the end, I fixed only the most obvious changes (T-1000 secret gun, truck's flying windows, Van Damme look alike stuntman, Arnie's face riding away from the truck's explosion).
End of rant.
Resolution: 1080p
Size: 42.3 GB
Audio: DTS Master Audio, AC3 (640 kbps), Commentaries (3 tracks)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
A gallery (62 pics) here: https://postimg.cc/gallery/1yxegpuhm/
Thumbnails:
For more subtitles, use opensubtitles, for example, to find the one you want.
You can find it on katcr *dot* co (kickass torrents) (it's ok to say where as long as I don't post any links, right?)
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Mission Impossible 2 |
Posted by: MeanjohnRambo - 2019-10-23, 12:00 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other
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After hearing so many bad things about MI:2 I decided to give it a watch for the first time since I was a kid and honestly it wasn't that bad. The action was solid, it never got boring, and some of the music was awesome e.g. Injection and Nyah by Hans Zimmer, Take a look around by Limp Bizkit, and I Disappear by Metallica. I found out there exists a 3 and 1/2 hour workprint with some extra violence not in the theatrical. It's apparent in the middle of the movie that huge portions were cut to fit the 120 minute guideline for the studios who once again butchered John Woo's original vision. I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on MI:2 and this supposed 3 hour plus workprint
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Halloween 35mm/TV hybrid cut |
Posted by: pipefan413 - 2019-10-22, 09:02 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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This is one I've done purely for my own enjoyment but I may as well share it. I'm working on redoing it to a slightly higher standard but depending on how that goes I may just release the version I already have, or perhaps even both as alternatives.
I recently rewatched Croweyes1121's HALLOWEEN: Revised Extended Edition, which reintroduces the 1981 TV scenes to spoRv's Fundamental Collection #006 THX-esque regraded release of the film. As it usually does, it irritated me how slow and unnecessary the bulk of the TV content was, and how mismatched it was with the rest of the film. However, one scene stood out to me as having some merit: the one after Loomis has the argument about kid Michael's treatment in 1964. He walks down the corridor then enters Michael's room and stands by the door, silently, watching him. Then he says a line which I feel explains the previous, painfully longwinded scene much more efficiently: "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me."
Whilst I like this part of the scene, it's got its own problems: there are some fairly questionable facial expressions from kid Michael, and the scene (like all others shot for the TV edit) is agonisingly padded out to hit that magic 2-hour runtime target. It also breaks the flow of the film where it sits in the Extended Edition, partly because the tone differs and it ruins the pacing, partly because it's very different visually (different colour, weird 80s wardrobe choices, and it's from a different film element than the rest of the film so has more damage/dirt). So, what I did was I snipped that one scene out, heavily cut most of the awkward cuts back and forth between Michael and Loomis, and stuck it at the beginning of the 2013 Blu-ray regrade as a prologue. I've kept the soundtrack as the original mono throughout.
As it stands, I haven't regraded the colour or attempted any cleanup, just lifted the video straight from the source and cut it for more dramatically effective timing. I'm happy with the edit, but not with the slightly distracting visual difference, so I'd like to give a conservative regrade a shot in DaVinci Resolve or similar. Incidentally, I'm considering trying to clean and regrade a similar insert for The Exorcist, so any tips would be helpful.
1. Would this be something you'd like to see?
2. Anyone got any particular suggestions or tips for approximating the colour regrade off the Blu-ray and/or cleaning up some of the dust/damage to the TV scene? I'm a complete beginner with that type of editing; all I've done in that respect is transcode to prores so I can actually use Resolve for the edit.
3. I'm considering making another version which uses the spoRv regrade rather than the Blu-ray, although I've been lucky enough to have seen a 35mm print of Halloween some years ago which I recall looking closer to the Blu-ray than to the THX colours approximated by spoRv's project. If there's interest, I might do two versions of the edit: one from each source.
UPDATE: RELEASED
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Gremlins UHD to 1080p |
Posted by: oh_riginal - 2019-10-21, 10:39 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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From what I understand, the new Gremlins UHD is a new scan that far improves the image over the badly aged blu-ray. Would anyone have the ability to convert the new scan to 1080p? Either MKV or blu-ray would work. It sucks for us who cannot afford to upgrade to UHD to miss out on all the new remasters.
Thanks in advance.
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Jason And The Argonauts Criterion Laserdisc |
Posted by: alleycat - 2019-10-21, 09:52 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help
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Hi All,
For my next Criterion preservation project I am going to be doing Jason and the Argonauts.
I already have the commentary track from the laserdisc and some of the extra features but not all of them. What I really need is someone with the laserdisc who can capture the missing special features:
32. Pre Production Drawings
33. Lobby cards and the original one sheet
35. Casting notes
36. Production photos
37. Production memos
38. Production records
39. Creating the hydra sequence
40. Creating the skeleton sequence
41 Harryhausen models and art work from the Forrest J Ackerman collection
48. Videodisc production credits
I think all of these are still images, if someone could capture them I would only need a few seconds of each as I'll extract the images and build slideshows. Hopefully someone out there can help. I'm working with someone who makes covers and they have reproduced the voyage map from inside the laserdisc cover as a blu ray insert, looks gorgeous.
Thanks
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